The Sketch Show
| The Sketch Show | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Lee Mack Tim Vine Jim Tavaré Karen Taylor Ronni Ancona (Series 1) Kitty Flanagan (Series 2) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 10 September 2001 – 24 April 2004 |
| Related | |
| Not Going Out | |
The Sketch Show is a British television sketch comedy programme, featuring British comedians. It aired on ITV between 2001 and 2004. The show was first commissioned in 2001 and was co-produced by a company owned by Steve Coogan. Despite the first series winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy, the second series was cancelled due to poor viewing figures. The final two episodes have never been broadcast.
A spinoff of the same title was produced in the United States. It was cancelled after 4 episodes and had a run of 6 episodes.
The show started at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999, and starred Lee Mack, Catherine Tate and Dan Antopolski. Mack later expressed regret at not including them in the TV show, stating: "I'm not a great believer in regret, but looking back over the last eighteen years of me doing this job, not keeping our sketch show Bits together and jumping at the first offer to put a version of it on telly is probably the biggest mistake I've made."